Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 8a – 0.6wte (22.5 hours) Permanent - Oldham Early Attachment Service
Are you an experienced Child Psychotherapist who is looking to develop and consolidate your clinical/therapeutic skills within the field of Parent-Infant Mental Health?
A unique opportunity has arisen to work within Oldham Early Attachment Service, one of the ten specialist Parent-Infant Mental Health (PIMH) services that sit within Greater Manchester's Perinatal and Parent Infant Service's Model. download.cfm (gmmh.nhs.uk)
We are looking for a highly skilled clinician who is passionate about working to support parents and infants to develop good quality relationships right from the start. We are a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team who appreciate psychoanalytic thinking and infant observation skills.
• To work as a specialist Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the Early Attachment Service providing community based therapeutic support to parents, infants and their families.
To hold a small clinical caseload providing assessment and therapy to support parent infant/young child relationships.
• to work closely with professional colleagues across the borough providing supervision, reflective practice groups and consultation to colleagues both within the team and to partner agencies eg Children's social care, Midwifery, Health Visiting, Early Years, Perinatal and Adult Mental Health colleagues, NICU and Pediatrics.
• To contribute to the development and delivery of the service's multi-agency training offer.
Oldham Early Attachment Service is commissioned to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of all infants and young children, up to 2 years of age. We have close links with Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Maternity, Neonatal service, Adult mental health, Perinatal mental health, Social care and the voluntary sector.
Our friendly and innovative team offers high-quality therapeutic support, assessment and treatment for families experiencing moderate to severe, complex and/ or enduring difficulties in their early relationships. We use our expertise to help the local workforce to understand and support parent-infant relationships.
This may be offered through training, consultation and/or supervision to other professionals to enable a shared understanding and language. Using the THRIVE model we have led the borough in developing integrated perinatal and parent-infant mental health services for parents and children under two.
The team consists of Specialist Health Visitors, Clinical Psychologists, Therapeutic Social Workers, Child Psychotherapists and a Speech and Language Therapist. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with access to CPD opportunities and robust clinical and management supervision structures.
To develop specialist provision for the parents of infants and young children using models of practice employed within other Under 2s services.
To provide specialist expertise in psychoanalytic principles and techniques through advice and consultation to other members of the PIMH service and colleagues within the network.
Post-holder will be expected to hold and work their own caseload within the context of the PIMH service.
To be part of the PIMH advice line rota providing appropriate information, advice, support, consultation to a range of professionals, and families.
To actively participate in PIMH weekly presentation, referral, CPD and business meetings.
To attend and contribute as an independent clinician to multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
To ensure appropriate liaison with professionals from external agencies.
To participate in the audit and evaluation of clinical work and the service as a whole.
To contribute to the development of best evidence based practice within the service.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
To be involved in PIMH service development as required.
To work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and communicate effectively regarding parents, infants and young children.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients and manage a caseload in line with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024
Are you an experienced Child Psychotherapist who is looking to develop and consolidate your clinical/therapeutic skills within the field of Parent-Infant Mental Health?
A unique opportunity has arisen to work within Oldham Early Attachment Service, one of the ten specialist Parent-Infant Mental Health (PIMH) services that sit within Greater Manchester's Perinatal and Parent Infant Service's Model. download.cfm (gmmh.nhs.uk)
We are looking for a highly skilled clinician who is passionate about working to support parents and infants to develop good quality relationships right from the start. We are a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team who appreciate psychoanalytic thinking and infant observation skills.
• To work as a specialist Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the Early Attachment Service providing community based therapeutic support to parents, infants and their families.
To hold a small clinical caseload providing assessment and therapy to support parent infant/young child relationships.
• to work closely with professional colleagues across the borough providing supervision, reflective practice groups and consultation to colleagues both within the team and to partner agencies eg Children's social care, Midwifery, Health Visiting, Early Years, Perinatal and Adult Mental Health colleagues, NICU and Pediatrics.
• To contribute to the development and delivery of the service's multi-agency training offer.
Oldham Early Attachment Service is commissioned to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of all infants and young children, up to 2 years of age. We have close links with Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Maternity, Neonatal service, Adult mental health, Perinatal mental health, Social care and the voluntary sector.
Our friendly and innovative team offers high-quality therapeutic support, assessment and treatment for families experiencing moderate to severe, complex and/ or enduring difficulties in their early relationships. We use our expertise to help the local workforce to understand and support parent-infant relationships.
This may be offered through training, consultation and/or supervision to other professionals to enable a shared understanding and language. Using the THRIVE model we have led the borough in developing integrated perinatal and parent-infant mental health services for parents and children under two.
The team consists of Specialist Health Visitors, Clinical Psychologists, Therapeutic Social Workers, Child Psychotherapists and a Speech and Language Therapist. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with access to CPD opportunities and robust clinical and management supervision structures.
To develop specialist provision for the parents of infants and young children using models of practice employed within other Under 2s services.
To provide specialist expertise in psychoanalytic principles and techniques through advice and consultation to other members of the PIMH service and colleagues within the network.
Post-holder will be expected to hold and work their own caseload within the context of the PIMH service.
To be part of the PIMH advice line rota providing appropriate information, advice, support, consultation to a range of professionals, and families.
To actively participate in PIMH weekly presentation, referral, CPD and business meetings.
To attend and contribute as an independent clinician to multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
To ensure appropriate liaison with professionals from external agencies.
To participate in the audit and evaluation of clinical work and the service as a whole.
To contribute to the development of best evidence based practice within the service.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility based on the Code of Professional and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
To be involved in PIMH service development as required.
To work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and communicate effectively regarding parents, infants and young children.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients and manage a caseload in line with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024
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